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There are, as the Detroit Free Press sports editor Joe Falls admits in this bright, anecdotal history, dozens of 26-mile races. But there is only one Boston Marathon. The rewards for running in this unique race are nugatory. The win ner receives a laurel wreath; other top finishers get medals worth little more than the cost of the bus ride they have just avoided; all finishers are granted a bowl of generally inedible beef stew. Yet since 1897, the marathon has drawn an ever widening group of manic adherents...
...sedentary as much as it may in spire fitness freaks, explains why. One must, after all, be a superb athlete to play left field for the Boston Red Sox, guard for the New York Knicks or quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. But anyone with enough determination can run the marathon - and even the stragglers do a good deal better than Pheidippides, the gallant Greek who started the madness back in 490 B.C., when he ran 25 miles to tell his fellow Athenians about their troops' great victory at Marathon. Though many have feared the worst, no one has ever...
...Boston Marathon faces a population explosion today as a record field of over 3000 qualified runners and countless unofficial crashers race the 26-mile,-385-yard course from the small town of Hopkinton to the finish line at the Prudential Center...
...event which once attracted only a few dozen harriers, in recent years the Boston Athletic Association (BAA) classic has rapidly grown in size despite the constant tightening of qualifying requirements. Now in order to qualify, a male under 40 must run a marathon in under three hourse; all others must complete the distance in under 3:30. But the lure of this famous race is such that 3016 people from all over the world have met those standards, including a record 141 women...
Among those poised for the start at noon are several world-class marathoners along with a few former winners of the event. Bill Rodgers of Melrose, who astonished onlookers in 1975 by winning the Marathon in a record 2:09.55, will join the chase as well as last year's winner, Jack Fultz, a 28-year-old Georgetown graduate from Franklin Park, Pa. (Fultz's time: 2:20.19). 1976 female champ Kim Merritt (2:47.10), who was hospitalized for exhaustion after her victory, will attempt to repeat her win without any of last year's side effects. And 1974 victor...